Fountain-pen



NTTED STATES vPATENT OFFICE.

A. r. WARREN AND o. M. H. WARREN, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK; l

FOUNTAIN-PEN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 14,425, dated March 1 1, 1856.

To' all whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that we, A. F. WARREN and (i.

M. Il. VARREN, of Brooklyn, in the county of.

Kings and Stat-e of New York, have invented a new and Improved Fountain-Pen; and we do hereby7 declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a lon gitudinl vertical section of our improvement, the plane of section being through lthe center. Fig. 2 is a detached side view of the piston attached to the end of its rod. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the under y side of the same.

of the fountain, the piston serving as a stopper. Our invention further consists in the peculiar arrangement of the pen, and the manner in which it is connected with the'fountain, so as to be supplied evenly or regularly with ink from the fountain, as will be presently fully 4shown and described.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct our invention, we will proceed to describe it.

A represents the ink-fountain,wl1ich serves as the handle of the pen, said fountain being a tube of proper dimensions' and formed of any suitable material. l

. 0n the upper end of the tube A a cap l1 is fitted, said cap having a rod C, attached to the inner side of its top piece a. The rod C is a little shorter than the tube A, so that when the cap B is fitted. on the end of the tube the lower end of the rod will not reach the lower end of the tube, the rodC beingwithin thet-ube. (Sec Fig. 1.) The lower end of the rod C has a pin b passing transversely through it.

D represents the piston formed of anypropcr material and fitted snugly within thc tube A, v

but allowed to work freely up and down there in. The rod C passes throughthe center of the .piston D and may be drawn back and forth through it, the ,pin b being below the piston'. The under side of the piston has two hooks c c attached to it, a hookbeing at each side of the rod C, which is in line with the two hooks, as shown clearly in l' i, 3;.v3.l The lower end of the tubeA is made rather smaller in diameter than the other portion ot' it, and has an aperture d lnad'e through it at its extreme end.

E is the pen, which is secured to the lower end of the tube A by a band F, said band passing around the upper end of the pen and the lower end of the tube, as clearly shown in.

Fig. 1.

Through the pen E there is made an aper ture e, which is directly over the aperture d inthe end of the tube where the pen is secured to it. (See Fig. 1.)

Tothe back or convex side of the pen E a plate G is attached. This plate is of somewhat curved form, its lower end bearing upon the pen E a short distance above the4 nib or j The tub-e A is fined with ink in the f011owing manner: If" the piston D is at the upper end of the tube A and the whole of the rod C within the tube, the cap-l3 is withdrawn from the upper end of the tube A, and the rod 'C is drawn outward from the tube till the pin b reaches the hooks c c at the under side of the piston. pin b to.. pass between the two hooks, and the rod C is then turned to allow the ends of the pin to catch into the hooks, as shown in Figs. and 3 and in redt in Fig. l.. The piston D is thereby attached to the end of the rod C and the piston is forced down tothe lower end of the tube and the pen E lput in the ink and the rod and piston drawn outward till the piston reaches the upper end of the tube, the ink of course being drawn up within the tube through the apertures e (l. The rodC is then detachedfroln the piston by turning the rod and freeing the pin b from the hooks c c, and

the rod is forced down within the tube, the

The rod C is then turned to allow the the aperturesetlinto thelspace f,w11ich serves as en -reservoir for the nih of the pen, the nib being supplied from the reservoir f, and the `aservoii receivingits supply from the tube in consequence of the wire g.

By the above improvement the 'pen receives a regular or even supply of ink,the elasticity of the pen causing the ink to iow freely and as Wire g will lalways keep the reservoir supplied. In consequenceof allowing the piston to be detaehed from the rod C the implement is rendered. portable, and the detached piston at the upper end of -the tube serves as a stopper.

We. do notelaim the plateGseparately, for

they have been previously used, although ap'- 'plied to the penin a Way diei'ent to that herein shown. Neither do we claim a piston foi' filling the fountain with ink,for they havev been also used for the same purpose; but

What We do claim as new, and desire to sccure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Having the piston D and rod C arranged shown o1' in an equivaleniv way, so that the piston may be detached from the rod when the tube o1' fountain is filled with ink, for the purpose specified.

2. Attaching the pen E directly to the lower end of the tube A by the band F, and conclueting the ink from the tube A to the back or convex side of the pen by the wire g ,which required from the reservoirorspace'while the L is attached to the pen and passes through thc apertures e d, as described.

.v 3. -The plate G, attached to the baci: or cou- Vex side of the pen `E,in combination with the wire @arranged as described,for the purpose of insuring a regular and even supply of ink to the pen. Y IA. F. WARREN.

C. M. ll. WARREN. Witnesses:

WM. TUSCHE, JAMES F. BUGKLEY. 

